Large ceramic vessel, Late Preclassic Period, ca. 300 BC - 200 AD · Mexico, Colima · ID: 3052933
Starting price
EUR 2,000
Estimated price
EUR 4,000
Provenance
Wolfgang Ketterer, Munich, 10 July 1993, lot 34German Private Collection, Munich
Size
H: 28 cm, D: 37 cm
H: 11.0 inch, D: 14.6 inch
Description
redware ceramic with black oxidations, drill hole from a thermoluminescence analysis on the underside (985304), rest.
Presumably depicting a pumpkin, three feet in the form of stylised bird heads.
Comparing literature
Jaguarmensch und Adlerkrieger, Meisterwerke Altmexikanischer Kunst, Berlin 1991, p. 273, ill. 106
Notices
This object is subject to the UNESCO Cultural Heritage Protection Act. Export documents are required for export (subjected to a fee).